by Lisa Willemse | Apr 25, 2014
> Julia Pon is a MD/PhD student at the University of British Columbia with an interest in blood cancer. Like many before her, she noticed that the kind of information that is shared with cancer patients is different than what medical students are taught about the...
by Lisa Willemse | Apr 11, 2014
> I’ve been thinking a fair bit about the “personalities” of stem cells in recent weeks — specifically, the characteristics of stem cells that might translate into a persona or a fictional character of some sort. It’s with good reason,...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 4, 2014
. This intriguing title is not completely my own. It is a shorter version of Alysson Muotri’s (UCSD) title from a presentation he gave to the governing Board of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine on March 13, 2014: “Reversing Autism in the Lab with...
by Lisa Willemse | Feb 28, 2014
> This is the second time I have travelled down to Raleigh, North Carolina to attend the annual ScienceOnline conference. Conferences generally conjure certain standard stereotypes and expectations (i.e. lots of listening to presentations given by thought leaders...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 7, 2014
. Science communications – #scicomm for you Twitter fans – is an important aspect of what we do here at Signals Blog and even rates its own category. Science communications aims to educate the public (and sometimes scientists) about a science-related topic. A variety...
by Sara M. Nolte | Jan 15, 2014
> I have recently been transitioning from “basic” science research to science communication. Why? Because there is a great disparity in what the public, policy makers, and even clinicians, know and think about research, and what the researchers know. I believe as...
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